News and Stories
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Academic Collaboration Brings Vital OR Skills to Zanmi Lasante
Every since she was a child growing up in Haiti, Marie Myrléne St. Vil Marius has wanted to dedicate her life “to people who have nothing and are in need.”
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Training session helps former Soviet countries tackle multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
The first scientific-practical training course "Treatment of Patients with MDR-TB" was held for doctors and TB specialists of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Tomsk...
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Painting a community
Children make their artistic mark on local community center.
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Statement by Loune Viaud of Zanmi Lasante at the launch of Woch nan Soley
Statement by Loune Viaud of Zanmi Lasante at the launch of Woch nan Soley: The Denial of the Right to Water in Haiti in June 2008.
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Report indicts U.S. government and Inter-American Development Bank
In 1998, the Inter-American Development Bank awarded $54 million in loans to the Haitian government to improve the country
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Croc attack: Trendy footwear fights sand fleas in Haiti
The shoes were prescribed by doctors to treat a major public health problem
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Fighting hunger and malnutrition in Lesotho
In August 2007, the staff at PIH's clinic in Nohana confronted an alarming increase in the number of malnourished children arriving from the surrounding mountain villages.
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Rwanda's rural health initiative brings quality care and home visits to Burera
A young, widowed mother of five named Patricie was recently admitted to the Burera District Hospital. She suffered from both advanced HIV/AIDS and disseminated tuberculosis.
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Bringing vital skills to operating rooms in Haiti
As a child growing up in Haiti, Marie Myrléne St. Vil Marius decided to dedicate her life “to people who have nothing and are in need.”
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Partner profile: pedaling for patients
Visiting 16 patients scattered among the rural hills of Malawi not once but twice every day? "No problem!" says one village health worker named Briston Threemunthu.